Women and the Reformations

Reflections on Recent Research

Bibliographic Data

ID12731998
AuthorsMerry E Wiesner-Hanks (0000-0003-4609-9336, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume2
Issue1
Publication date2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1478-0542 • E-ISSN: 1478-0542
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1478-0542.00073x
OpenAlexW2167440174
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited107

Scholarship on women and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations over the last quarter‐century has stressed diversity, difference, and complexity. It has developed new theoretical and methodological directions, and also presented new ways to look at more “old‐fashioned topics,” such as the lives of great women and the ideas of great men. Many studies have explored women's actions in support of or in opposition to the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and women's spirituality more broadly; among these, research on convents and female religious has been especially innovative. Studies of the ideas of the reformers and the effects of the Reformations on women, the family, and notions of gender have focused particularly on the process of social discipline, noting continuities with medieval patterns as well as new emphases. The focus on the “long Reformation” and increased attention to the expansion of Christianity beyond Europe, represent burgeoning areas of current research

Christianity · Diversity (politics · Opposition (politics · Political science · Protestantism · Quarter (Canadian coin · Scholarship · Sociology · Spirituality · Anthropology · Early Modern Women Writers · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies

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